Improvement in ice-picks



W. T. EAMES.

Ice Pick.

7,754. Patented August 8, 1871.A

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EITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. EAMES, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LEONARD J. HAAS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-PICKS.

Spocication forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,754, dated August 8, 1871.

To all whom fit may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM T. EAMES, of the city, county, and State of New York, have in` vented a new and Improved Ice-Pick; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specieation.

My invention relates to improvements in instruments for picking and breaking ice; and it consists in a breaking and picking instrument composed of a hammer-head with a steel point or pick in one end, and a handle with a socket containing a pointed steel instrument for driving into the ice by the hammer, all as hereinafter described. A

The drawing represents the improved instrument, partly in elevation and partly in section.

A is a hammer-like instrument, mounted on the end of a handle, B, and provided with a sharp icepick, of hardened steel, O, in the end opposite the one used for pounding. The handle has a long socket D, in the end opposite the one to which the hammer is attached, and a sharp steel instrument, E, is fitted into said socket, and secured by a screw-threaded part, F, near the head, screwing into the mouth of the socket, which is correspondingly fitted to receive it.

This pointed instrument is adapted to be held in the hand, for driving into the ice by the hammer in such parts as cannot be reached by the pick C; for instance, a piece of ice being dropped into the mouth of a pitcher, and having projections low down in the contracted part of the vessel requiring to be chipped off to admit the piece,

and that cannot be reached by the point O, may

have them chipped oft' by the in strumentE, driven by the hammer.

It is also desirable to employ the instrument E in any case, as it will not cause small pieces to iiy ott' as much as the point G, which cannot be guarded with sufficient accuracy, at each blow, to prevent chipping oft' the wall of the hole formerly-made, which is not the case when said instrument E is used.

As the tool is intended for use on the table these considerations are important, and make the instrument more desirable than those having only the point O.

Having thus described my invention7 I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, an icepick, composed of the hammer A, steel point O, socketed handle B, and the steel instrument E, all combined and arranged substantially as speciicd.

The above speciiication of my invention signed by me this 21st day of June, 1871.-

' WILLIAM T. EAMES.

Witnesses F. T. LAWRENOE, T. V. JARvIs CERrsToPHERs. 

